A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

Plain lies are dangerous.